Daily smoking was over seven times higher (prevalence ratio: 7.20, 95%CI: 4.92 to 10.53, adjusted for age, gender and ethnicity) in the most deprived quintile (20.0%, 159,000 people) than in the least deprived quintile (3.4%, 28,000 people)
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Our results show that the approximately 20% of the US adult population who score in the 3-7 range on the K6, well below the 13 and above cut-off for defining serious psychological distress, were 40% more likely to be current smokers, were more likely to want to or to try to quit smoking, but were 20% less likely to successfully quit smoking than people with K6 scores in the low range 0-2
In the case of Brazil, 76 percent of people support the use of the images, and 54 percent changed their mind about the effects of smoking, with 67 percent saying that seeing the images made them want to stop smoking